Tour Report of the East Garden of the Imperial Palace on 3 February 2024 – Wait for Spring time

Thank you for choosing our tour at East garden of Imperial Prerace on February 3rd 2024. We welcomed 5 guests from Germany, and India.

Start with a family with 7month cutie kid from Berline/Germany, at Wadakura-mon gate we welcomed a Family from India. I hope all of you enjoyed and shared interesting conversations with us during the tour. As promised, group photos and snapshots are attached to remember the fun times we had.

Feb 3^rd, it is called “SETSUBUN” as a last day of winter, and now we are standing  just before Spring, “RISSHUN”, according to a Japanese luna calendar.  We could see a “Mamemaki” (throwing roasted soy beans) event at most Shrine and Temples, saying “Oni wa soto(Devils out), Fuku wa Uchi(Happiness in)” .  It is said people eat beans as many as your age, then you could alive more with happiness. How come if my age is 70 ?

Also there is an old song, DODOITSU that initially introduced at late EDO Era. “UME WA SAITAKA? SAKURA WA MADKAINA?” mean Does Flower of Plume open ?  How about Cherry Blossom?”  It is really song of current time of season.  By the way , we could see Plume blossoms now in the garden, also if you are lucky you cloud see Uguisu (Japanese Nightingale), and hope we see Cheery blossoms a month later.

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Teruo wrote